NEW YORK — Major League Baseball is making some changes designed to speed games but won't implement more radical proposals this year.
The league and the players' union announced an agreement Friday to enforce the rule requiring a hitter to keep at...

Andy Warhol would have loved this winter.
In only 3-1/2 months, every major league team seemed to have its own 15 minutes of fame, from the usual suspects to the perennial wannabes.
The Blue Jays and A's started it with a blockbuster trade, the Red...

James Shields lives in an exclusive enclave in northern San Diego County in the offseason, so he followed with interest as Padres general manager A.J. Preller revamped the roster with big-name position players.
On Wednesday, the workhorse right-hander...

SAN DIEGO -- Right-hander James Shields, who helped Kansas City reach the World Series last season, has agreed to a four-year contract with the San Diego Padres.
The Cubs were rumored to have interest in Shields as well.
Shields is the latest addition...

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SAN DIEGO (AP) — Right-hander James Shields, who helped Kansas City reach the World Series last season, has agreed to a four-year contract with the San Diego Padres.
Shields is the latest addition by first-year general manager A.J. Preller, who in December added sluggers Matt Kemp, Justin Upton and Wil Myers, as well as Derek Norris and Will Middlebrooks.
Shields was traded from Tampa Bay to Kansas City two years ago in a deal in which Myers, then the Royals' top prospect, was acquired by the...

Right-hander James Shields, who helped Kansas City reach the World Series last season, has agreed to a $75 million, four-year contract with the San Diego Padres.
The deal includes an option for 2019 and is subject to the successful completion of a physical, which likely to take place Tuesday.
Shields is the latest addition by first-year general manager A.J. Preller, who in December added sluggers Matt Kemp, Justin Upton and Wil Myers, as well as Derek Norris and Will Middlebrooks.
Shields was traded...

Sorry to mess with your WPA+ and Rtot ratings, and whatever else you hold dear to your little sabermetric hearts this week, but the Padres are now the team to reckon with in the National League West.
That’s right, the hard-to-watch Padres, the almost forgotten team from way down Southern California.
Think the Dodgers made a lot of moves this off-season? The Padres went the full re-invention route. Cleaned house and then called in the hazmat suits.
Then on Monday they signed right-hander...

A five-player trade that was first reported a week earlier was completed late Thursday night as the San Diego Padres finalized a deal to acquire Matt Kemp from the Los Angeles Dodgers, multiple media outlets reported.
That trade enables the Phillies to complete their trade with the Dodgers that was agreed upon earlier this month.
Philadelphia sends shortstop Jimmy Rollins to Los Angeles for Dodgers minor league pitcher Tom Windle and Padres minor league pitcher Zach Elfin.
According to CSNPhilly....

The trade sending Matt Kemp from the Dodgers to the San Diego Padres was finalized Thursday, one week after the division rivals agreed in principle to the blockbuster deal.
The final stages of the five-player exchange, which were expected to be a formality, resulted in some confusing moments for Dodgers officials. With the teams approaching their self-imposed deadline Thursday night to complete the deal, the Padres were said to be thinking of canceling the trade because of concerns over Kemp's health....

As the San Diego Padres were preparing to introduce Matt Kemp as their new star attraction Friday, Andrew Friedman explained the Dodgers' polarizing decision to trade the two-time All-Star.
The Dodgers' president of baseball operations laughed when told on a conference call that he would be hated by fans if his recent trades don't work out.
"Not any more than we'll hate ourselves," Friedman said.
Asked if he had any reservations about trading a player as popular as Kemp, Friedman replied, "Sure....